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The Mobile Frontier

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The computing industry is undergoing major evolution positioning mobile devices as the primary personal computing device. This blog will identify concepts and observations related to that evolution - missives on the journey to a mobile computing world.

As our planet gets smarter, our phones get smarter too. With the increasing popularity of platforms such as Android, iOS, Windows Mobile, and others that offer endless possibilities for building powerful mobile applications, developing applications for these platforms has become a herculean task. Mobile developers, just like the traditional desktop/web developers, have to go through requirement gathering and modeling, development in a geographically distributed team, testing, developing cross-platform apps, deploying and maintaining the apps... [More]

As the world moves towards the powerful mobile platforms for not just making calls, sending messages, or clicking pictures, but also for searching for information, paying bills, shopping online, etc. that they would've traditionally done on a PC, the need for mobile applications for all of these is becoming quite evident. With the multiplicity of mobile platforms such as Android, iOS, Windows Mobile, etc., just developing a mobile app that runs on one of these is not sufficient. Moreover, even with the same platform, a manufacturer can have... [More]